Film Quotes - Page 119

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

There was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.